It wasn't more progressive, especially given that half of the Tory party voted against it.
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It wasn't more progressive, especially given that half of the Tory party voted against it.
The corollary is equally true that Labour constantly blaming a hostile media environment is nothing but an excuse to deflect attention away from their absolute godawful messaging, particularly when they make little effort to claw back control of the conversation from the far-right.
Hell, just knock the shields down and start beaming the crew off the enemy ship.
They occasionally did, such as beaming photon torpedoes onto unshielded targets (VOY: Dark Frontier) or literally beaming components of the ship away to disable it (ENT: E²), but given how versatile they are I agree with you, I'm really surprised they didn't do it more!
No. Autocrats seek to deny people their fundamental human rights, not abstracts of person. Let's stop TikTokifying perfectly incisive language into something incomprehensible and clunky, and focus on actually countering the rise of global fascism.
Food is legitimately one of the best and most primal expressions of genuine human multiculturalism and unity, so it's weird and often disappointing we get this rigid nationalistic racial parochialism about it. That being said I'm tired of people claiming Marco Polo brought pasta from China.
Yeah it would. Pasta was invented by the Etruscans. Egg noodles were invented independently in China.
The rest of Canada gets Poutine while Quebec gets the rest of Canada's money. Seems like a fair deal.
An independent Republic of Alberta would exist for about 5 minutes before Dictator Smith ran straight to the White House to apply for US Statehood.
This also bleeds over into those who hire immigrants without valid working permits. The immigrants are the ones who get demonised, despite the fact they clearly want to contribute, and the business owners who hire people illegally get off scot-free every time.
"When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them: 'What were you thinking?' You look at yourself and ask: 'What were we doing'" - Keir Starmer
It's Nate Silver, I'm going to be charitable and assume he's just an idiot.
"But immigration depresses wages because migrants will work for less!" "So you blame the exploitative business owners & CEOs who, despite raking in record profits, refuse to pay their workers well?" "Lol no, I blame the migrant holed up in a hotel while a baying mob thirsts to burn them alive"
Nope. *Egg noodles* were invented independently in China, but pasta has its own separate and unique culinary tradition that existed as far back as the Etruscans in Italy. The legend that Marco Polo brought pasta from China was invented by the Macaroni Journal to promote pasta in the US.
Pasta isn't from China, it existed in Italy as far back as Ancient Rome. The rest is correct, though!
Proportional representation is one of the surest ways to severely blunt or even stop outright the rise of Reform. It's more democratic, it's fairer, it ensures the voice of the average voter is heard in a way that it never is with FPTP.
"Bluesky isn't at all important, I just can't stop thinking about them and I really hate that they all left Twitter, because now I'm just hanging out with all the neo-Nazis. Sadface :("
"Blueskyism that leftism" What?
"It's tradition!" "Yeah well it's traditional where I come from to ask people if they want to host, and not arrogantly presume that they will just so you can get a free dinner"
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
Let's see how Labour's "we must tack to the far-right in order to win over Reform voters" strategy is goi......oh...
She's not "careless with the truth". She's just a liar.
Well, all these dipshits will vote Reform, so they'll get exactly what they vote for. They won't listen to reason, evidence, rationality, or empathy, so maybe the only thing that will teach them is to inconvenience them personally.
Ukraine's hits on the oil refineries & international sanctions are working. Keep it up.
See, Starmer? It's not fucking hard.
"For people who want to come here and make an honest living, we wrap them in our flag and welcome them into community. I have zero tolerance for those who would use our national symbols to intimidate vulnerable refugees, denigrate immigrants, or who wrap themselves in our flag to cover their hatred"
Instead we just get "yeah flags are cool I guess, and I have a really big English one in my home".
How about this: "For people who want to come here and make an honest living, we wrap them in our flag and welcome them into community. I have zero tolerance for those who would use our national symbols to intimidate vulnerable refugees, denigrate immigrants, or as a banner for hatred and division".
The fact that you're pretending those are the only possible answers he could've thought of is very telling of how disingenuous you're being to cover for this weak weather vane.
They'll say it's "just a joke" or "just trolling" but it feels like, deep down, a lot of politically middle road folks just want a liberal version of Trump.
"Alberta Sovereignty!" Oh please. They'd run straight to the front of the queue to lick Trump's dying, decaying, decrepit feet if they ever got independence.
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
This is just deeply cringe and weird. We can be anti-Trump without the AI slop.
So have any other authors gotten emails from "marketers" threatening to review bomb them and leave "written w AI" in said reviews unless they pay thousands of dollars to "hire" the "marketer"...? Like what the fuck is this...? I'm like 3 days away from being done w this move and I don't need this bs
When Starmer kept telling us his father was a toolmaker, he was referring to himself.
"Why didn't you come to bed last night, honey?" "Sorry babe, I got lost somewhere between Blockbuster video and the giant trapdoor"
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Jadzia, definitely.
You don’t see this👇🏼news pushed by the BBC on its main news page like they “report” when Farage opens his mouth or a migrant lands etc.. #RightWingScum put a Union Jack on a Mosque to intimidate them.. So its leaders put it in a window saying 'This is our flag... we are proud British Muslims”👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
I was a huge, quite loud & aggressive Corbynite in the run-up to his election as Leader, but by a year later I was firmly opposed and have been since. Nevertheless, a year is a long time to do a lot of damage. For what it might be worth, I am truly, sincerely sorry.
Exactly. Security guarantees aren't worth shit, and certainly not from this USian regime.
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Indeed. Though even Moseley and the BUF never got anywhere near any real power. The new union of fascists that is Reform would win the election if one were held tomorrow.
Honestly, same.
This, and this is also why successive governments, increasingly bought and paid for by wealthy interests, have sought to progressively weaken labour unions.
"Respect our laws!*" * Unless we disagree with it, then fuck it This is disgraceful, disgusting, and genuinely frightening that this blatantly racist shit is becoming so casually normalised in the UK mainstream. The UK always had a minority streak of vicious racism but this is something else.
If you're being asked this question, you're already doomed and you need a desperate course correction. While Phillipson is correct, it also ignores how Labour are also promoting anger by legitimising Reform's grievances, which are based on anger and hatred.
Why don't they just join Reform and get it over with? They're basically the same party at this point, and the Tories are politically irrelevant for the first time in their history.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact Badenoch has received large amounts of money from the fossil fuel industry.
I agree! No mutinies have ever been caused by poor pay or anything. None. Never. Doesn't happen.
Under regulations, if orders run for fewer than 30 days, troops only receive a reduced rate of pay. Trump has them on cycles of 29-day orders over and over again, to avoid paying them.
What are they gonna do? Kill another million soldiers to capture a few villages in Ukraine in a vain attempt to march west to Austria?
By contrast, the UK 2024 general election cost £94.5 *million* (just shy of $128 million) and even that was a record high.
It really can't be overstated how virtually every institution in America has been built and cultivated for the sole purpose of enrichment. Elections are especially a big one: in 2024 nearly $15 BILLION was spent on the Presidential & Congressional races. It's just insane.
So they're basically flat-out admitting that the main draw to be in Congress is insider trading, corruption, and making money.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Came here to say this!
I don't think it's an over-exaggeration now to say that the UK, not France or Germany, will be the flashpoint of a new strain of European fascism.
“He’s behind me, isn’t he?”
Holy crap, a 26 MW wind turbine! 185 meter hub height! 310 meter rotor diameter! electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
I have six on ice: Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Farage, Musk, and Moldemort, and I intend to live long enough to drink them all.
I've lived here in Canada for nearly 3 years, I regularly hop across the border to the US to see my wife & stepkid, and I lived the first 30 years of my life in the UK, so I've experience of all three places lol. Canada is my favourite place to be.
I will say though of the three countries Canada is by far doing the best. It's light years ahead of the US as far as social cohesion goes and it's leaps and bounds ahead of the UK.
Particularly on issues that are fuelled by emotion like immigration and crime, practicalities and facts don't sway people, because people's views on them are, by and large, fundamentally detached from reality. Net migration could be 0 and people would still be convinced immigration is too high.
Exactly this. Attacking practicalities didn't work for Remain in 2016, and it won't work here. Instead we need a clear, alternative vision. Instead the weak weather vane for a PM seems determined to just point wherever the winds blow.
It's getting to the point where the UK is barely a country any more; rather it's becoming a nuclear-armed care home for soulless racists.
This is fast becoming the norm in the UK now. Farage and the complicity of a media ecosystem determined to give him an easy ride have made this the mainstream. All the while the Labour government sit on their hands in appeasement, nodding along at worst and saying nothing at best.
A Filipino NHS worker with 15 years of service and her family were racially abused and assaulted on 28 August in Manor Heath Park. A Chinese takeaway in York that's served the community for a decade was vandalised with graffiti telling them to "go home". A sitting MP facilitated racial abuse.
One thing has always been abundantly clear about Mamdani: he loves New York City and he's sincere about wanting the best for it. Vance, on the other hand, wrote a book about how shit his home region is.
The best bit is the AI can't even spell "Police" correctly on the badge so it just gave up and called it Ouiouou.
To be fair, his message is a good one and the kind of civic patriotism we should be aiming for. It rings a little hollow though when his boss is proudly boasting on Twitter how many black people he's deporting.
Of its 6 MPs, half of them voted against decriminalising abortion, 1 abstained, and only 2 voted in favour (Corbyn & Sultana). I agree, its foundations are bigotry.
I never had any faith that Corbyn & Sultana could create a viable new left-wing party because they're terrible politicians, but here's a fun fact: of its 6 MPs, half voted against decriminalising abortion, 1 abstained, and 2 (Corbyn & Sultana) voted in favour. Its foundation is bigotry.
"He's not dead folks, he was seen not doing his job"
So the same tired failed centrist logic that's plunged the western world into stagnation and decay for the last 40 years.
I've long thought we need a new left that's actually about coalition building & advocating for social justice in a sane and sensible way, as opposed to this constant ideological one upmanship and valorisation of antisocial behaviour we get with Corbyn and his ilk. We need a Mamdani-type figure.
It's frustrating to see people continue to excuse him on those grounds (when they absolutely would not entertain it among liberal or right-leaning politicians), or that it took people being personally threatened to wake up to him, but I'm very glad they are and they're welcome to the fight.
Austin's memorial plaque arrived today, which we affixed to the box that surrounds his apple tree. Rest in peace, little buddy.
More in the sense that he's acting exactly like the "posh gentrifiers" he decries.
Schumer is the Internet Explorer of Senators.
Yep! Chicken Tikka Masala 😋😁
Funny that he's decrying refugees for adding some spice to the local life (pun intended) as "gentrification" when his timeline is the most middle class Waitrose-esque word salad tosh you can imagine.
When I was in the US I had an Afghan Uber driver, who assisted US forces against the Taliban. His brother aided the British forces. He was incredibly gracious, humble, kind, generous with his time, & a damn courageous man. Farage wants to use our money to pay the Taliban to kill people like him.
It won't stop when you have a weak weather vane devoid of principle like Keir Starmer in charge. Instead of a clear vision he just points wherever the wind blows him, and everyone except a weird bottish clique of permanently online glazers can see how insincere it is.
The media have always been hostile to Labour, and frankly it's something they should've been prepared for. This constant shifting of blame that it's everyone's fault but the government's for the current mess needs to stop. It's an abrogation of responsibility that'd make the Tories weep with envy.
The Tories are irrelevant at this point in almost every respect. Labour have been in power for over a year. They are the ones in charge. If hotels are still being used by migrants, it's because Labour chooses for that to be the case.
The only one doing Farage's job right now is Keir Starmer.
That's quite literally what he did.
That's part of the problem, there's no consistent messaging. Their comms team is hopelessly lost.
Are the Conservatives currently in power?
Admittedly, Dear Doctor *almost* made the list for the ENT episode, but that at least had the shadow of a good premise, and it at least inspires feelings of rage at Phlox & Archer. A Night In Sickbay is like watching earthworms fuck.
No worries! Feel better soon!
My personal list of the top 5 irredeemably bad Star Trek episodes: 1. TNG - Code of Honor 2. TOS - Turnabout Intruder 3. VOY - Tattoo 4. DS9 - Profit & Lace 5. ENT - A Night In Sickbay
For things to eat - toast with a small amount of butter; bananas; plain rice, potatoes, or noodles; or ginger biscuits (ginger soothes nausea). Avoid sweet, spicy, and fatty foods.
If you still have the migraine - relax in a hot bath with all the lights off & no noise. It helps me every time! My housemate suggested it to me as I get migraines from the humidity and air pressure in summer, something to do with the heat decompressing your muscles & blood vessels.
I can't imagine why a rich aristocrat would be so opposed to taxes.